Showing posts with label Penelope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penelope. Show all posts

Dead Is Dead

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How does Locke instinctively know where the Monster is?
  2. Did Dharma know about the doorway that is in Ben's house?
  3. Why did Ilana and Bram ask Frank "what lies in the shadow of the statue?"
  4. What is in the crate?

Answers Given:
  1. What is the hole Locke is pulled into? These holes around the island seem to be "tunnels" through which the Monster can travel.
  2. Why did the Monster not attack Eko? Based on what Ben experiences, it judged Eko to be "good," or at least gave him another chance.
  3. What are the flashes inside the Monster (apparently Eko's past) representative of? The Monster appeared to "scan" people to judge them.
  4. Why did the Monster kill Eko? Based on the information given in this episode, it would appear that the Monster did not like Eko's refusal to repent for his actions and killed him.
  5. What did Ben do to "control" the Monster and why is he dirty? It seems Ben cannot control the Monster, but instead told it about the mercenaries and it attacked them. He is dirty because he had to crawl down a tunnel to summon it.
  6. How did Widmore leave the island? After it was discovered that he had a daughter off the island, he was forced to leave. He left via the sub.
  7. What did Ben do and why is he beat up? Ben went to kill Penny, but stopped after he realized she had a son. Desmond attacked Ben once he realized what Ben was doing.
  8. Why did Ben kill Locke? Ben claims he did it to make sure that the Oceanic 6 would return, due to the shock of Locke's death, he just didn't have time to talk Locke back into suicide.

There's No Place Like Home, Part 2

Friday, May 30, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Why did Miles decide to stay on the island?
  2. How does Miles know Charlotte has been on the island before?
  3. What is Charlotte's history on the island?
  4. What is the "safe place" Sayid talks about?
  5. Why did Christian appear to Michael?
  6. Why is Sun contacting Widmore?
  7. Where did the Island go?
  8. What happened to Daniel and the others on the raft?
  9. Where are Frank, Desmond, and Penny in the future?
  10. What "very bad things" happened on the island after the Oceanic 6 left?
  11. Why does the Island need everyone to come back?
  12. How did Locke die?
  13. How did Locke get to the mainland?
Answers Given:
  1. Where were the Others taking Kate and Sayid? To Ben, to free him.
  2. Who was Ben communicating with when he used the mirror? What did he say? He was telling the Alpert and Others to rescue him.
  3. What is the purpose of the Orchid station? Time/space experiments.
  4. What is on Keamy's arm? The dead-man's trigger for the dynamite on the freighter.
  5. What caused the interference on the freighter monitor? Keamy's broadcast to the C4.
  6. Why did Sawyer decide to stay on the Island? He jumped out of the chopper so the others could get to the freighter.
  7. Why is Ben wearing a parka? He put it on to turn the frozen donkey wheel.
  8. Why did Ben wake up the the desert? He was thrown into Tunisia when after he island moved.
  9. Why did Ben not know what year it was? He was thrown into 2005 suddenly after the island moved.
  10. How did Ben get off the island? When Ben moved the island he was thrown off of it.
  11. If Hurley went with Locke, why is he off the Island? Hurley went with Locke, but once Keamy and his men came, Jack went to find Hurley so he could get off with them.
  12. Why is Hurley sorry he went with Locke instead of Jack? It seems Hurley wanted to say something kind, and implies he would have been better off trusting Jack.
  13. Why will the Oceanic Six not tell anyone about what happened on the island? Jack says they have to lie to protect those left on the island from people who would try to find it.
  14. How did Jack and Kate get off the island? Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sawyer, Desmond, Hurley, Sayid, and Frank boarded the helicopter off the island. Sawyer jumped out. Sun rode the raft to the boat with Daniel and Jin. Sun boarded the helicopter, but the boat blew up. The island disappeared, so they crashed into the ocean. Penny found them a few hours later. She took them near an island, where Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, and Aaron boarded a liferaft to sail to to the island.
  15. How does Kate become Aaron's "mother?" She "adopts" him after leaving the island and claims that she gave birth to him while on the island.
  16. Why is Jack intent on returning to the island? Locke told him "very bad things" happened after they left.
  17. Who is the second person Sun blames for Jin's death? She blames Jack.
  18. Who is in the coffin? Locke.

The Other Woman

Thursday, March 6, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How did Ben communicate with Harper?
  2. Why did Goodwin lie about his chemical burn?
  3. Harper says that Juliet looks just like "her." Who is she referring to?
  4. What is Widmore's interest in the island?
  5. How does Widmore know about the island?
  6. What does Penny know of his research?
  7. How do Daniel and Charlotte know about the Tempest?

Answers Given:
  1. Where does the power for the Other's houses come from? From the Tempest.
  2. If the boat isn't Penny's, who does it belong to? The boat is owned by Charles Widmore.
  3. Why were the freighter people not allowed to answer the call from Penelope? Presumably, Charles Widmore gave the instruction not to answer the call from his daughter so she would not discover the island.
  4. Who is on Jacob's list? Based on what Ben says about Zach and Emma, it seems that Jacob was the one who devised the lists for the Others to capture survivors he deemed "good."
  5. Do Ben and Juliet have a romantic history? Ben is infatuated with Juliet, but the feeling is unrequited.

The Constant

Friday, February 29, 2008 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Why is time perception different off the island?
  2. Why did the freighter people not want Frank to bring Desmond and Sayid?
  3. Why were the freighter people not allowed to answer the call from Penelope?
  4. Who sabotaged the communications room?
  5. Who opened the sickbay door?
  6. Who is the captain?
  7. Does Daniel remember Desmond from 1996?

Answers Given:
  1. Where is the helicopter? For some reason, the time lapse that Desmond, Sayid, and Frank experienced was shorter than the time Jack and the others on the island experienced. While it seemed only 20 minutes to those in the helicopter, it seemed like at least 24 hours to those on the beach.
  2. Why was Desmond dishonorably discharged from Royal Scots Regiment? Desmond was discharged because he went AWOL looking for Daniel and Penny.
  3. Why isn't Minkowski answering? Minkowski was restrained in sickbay because of his flashes.

Through the Looking Glass

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. What is the Temple?
  2. How did Walt appear to Locke?
  3. Who is in the coffin?
  4. Is Ben right about Naomi?
  5. If the boat isn't Penny's, who does it belong to?
  6. How did Jack and Kate get off the island?
  7. Who else got off the island?
  8. How is Kate able to see Jack if she is a known fugitive?
  9. Why is Jack intent on returning to the island?
  10. What is the lie that Jack and Kate are telling?
  11. Who is the "he" Kate refers to?

Answers Given:
  1. Who are the women in the Looking Glass? They are Bonnie and Greta. They were sent to the Looking Glass by Ben to jam transmissions. Ben told the rest of the Others that they were on assignment in Canada.
  2. What are the Others making Kate and Sawyer work on? They were working on a runway.
  3. Why is Karl in the cage next to Sawyer? Ben didn't want Karl to get Alex pregnant.
  4. What will Penny do? She called out somehow to the area the signal she found came from.
  5. Will Charlie really die? Yes, Charlie dies so everyone else can leave the island.

The Brig

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. How did Anthony Cooper get the to Island?
  2. Why is Rousseau getting dynamite?
  3. What does Juliet want to tell Kate?

Answers Given:
  1. What is the "box" Ben describes? The box is a metaphor.
  2. Who is the parachutist? Her name is Naomi Dorrit. She comes from a freighter 80 nautical miles west of the island. She's part of a search and recovery team.
  3. What will Penny do? She sent Naomi and her team to rescue Desmond.
  4. Why does the parachutist have a picture of Desmond and how does she know him? She was sent by Penny to rescue Desmond.
  5. Who is the real Sawyer? The original Sawyer is Anthony Cooper, Locke's father.

Live Together, Die Alone

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 by Gideon

Questions Raised:
  1. Why couldn't Desmond escape the island?
  2. Why was Desmond dishonorably discharged from Royal Scots Regiment?
  3. What is the origin of the four toed statue?
  4. What exactly happened in the incident?
  5. Based on the way the notebooks are dumped in the field, what was the true purpose of the Pearl? Was it the experiment?
  6. What happened to the hatch?
  7. What happened to Locke, Eko, and Desmond?
  8. Why does Michael have to follow the bearing of 325?
  9. What happened to Michael and Walt after leaving the Island?
  10. How did Penelope Widmore know to look for electromagnetic disturbances?
  11. What will Penny do?

Answers Given:
  1. Who is in the sailboat offshore? Desmond is in the sailboat.
  2. Where did Desmond go? He took a sailboat away believing that he could escape the island, be he was unable.
  3. Who painted the blast door map? Kelvin Inman's old partner, Radzinski started it, then committed suicide. Kevin continued it.
  4. What is the "incident?" The "incident" was a leak of electromagnetic material from the Swan.
  5. Why does Desmond have to enter the numbers into the computer? Entering the numbers and pushing the button releases electromagnetic material that builds up in the Swan.
  6. What's behind the door marked with the Dharma symbol? Nothing, just a stone wall.
  7. Where does the pneumatic tube go to? The pneumatic tube in the Pearl simply dumps the notebooks in a field.
  8. What is the log in the Pearl a log of? The Pearl log is a log of the times the button was pushed.
  9. Did Henry push the button? He had to, a system failure was never experienced.
  10. Why did the plane crash, and why did it rip apart? Desmond's failure to push the button most likely interfered with the plane's mechanisms (electromagnetic interference), and that plus the turbulence caused it to rip apart.
  11. What is "Zeke's" real name? Zeke's true name is Tom.
  12. Is the Swan really just a test? No, the Swan is not a test. The button must be pushed to release electromagnetic buildup.
  13. Would not pushing the button really mean death for everyone on the island? It would seem that failure to push the button would destroy the Island, the buildup only stopped once Desmond pushed the button.